Final Community Service Self-Reflection

          1-First of all my volunteer was in Future Center in Musaffah. They teach students who have a disability or a physical problems to let them know how to contact with other people and they teach them how to respect. The ages was from 5 to 21 years old and the volunteering was very good so i enjoyed it and i advice anyone how have to volunteer to go there because its wonderful place to volunteer and they teach you everything like how to treat the students there. The volunteer wasn't so hard actually it was very easy and the students can understand you when you get used of it.

          2-The best part was when i teach a student called shezin how to type in the computer at the beginning he couldn't find the letters in the key bored so i did a table and write the letters in it from A to Z then i ask him to type the letters 10 times for each. After a week i took him to the computer lab to type a paragraph and he did very well so he improved very fast and he can now write a big paragraph alone without helping. I feel so happy that i reached a goal that i let him know how to type.

          4-The teachers in Future Center teach me how to help the students and how to make them do their job so i learned many things like to be patient and wait for them to finish their job for example like wait for them to think because they can't think or act like the normal people they are little bit slower than them. Also i learned to never treat them different than the normal children because they are smart and they will feel bad for that. So as i said i will take the patient and the respect to other people. 

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Future Center

I did an interview with one of the teachers who works in future center and thats what she told me about:

1 - For how many years you have been working with special needs kids ?

For 5 years she was in other special needs school before 2 years she came into future center. 

2 - Is working with special needs kids a hard job ? What are the hardest cases?
she said its hard for the new teacher who never teaches a  special needs student in her life but, its so easy in my opinion i am happy to work with them. i don't think that there is any hard cases.

3 - Why did you choose working with special needs kids ?
because i had a friend who have a kid with special needs i felt sad for him so i think that if i can help them even if i work hard but i liked this job and i like to help special needs people.

4 - What are the best feeling you had as an special needs teacher ?
when my students improve in the things which i teaches like writing and reading and also typing.

5 - how can we as a college students help them ?

teach them who to read and write also treat them like the normal kids or normal people .. make them feel happy .. teach them how to respect other people and even how to be smart.

volunteering

Future Center Volunteering

     In my first day of volunteering in future center when i went to the class they where eating at 10:30 then every single person clean their table and chair after they finish eating the breakfast and every day one of the student should wash the dishes and another student take the dishes to the table. After that they play different games like puzzles and matching the pictures then they study English letters and spelling. After that they play in the computer ABCD games for example they listen to the sound and spelling the letters also they press the letters in the key bored. The students ages were from 8 to 13 years old but some of them where very smart like they can easy read and write. 

    After that I took them to the computer lab to write the letters a b c d and some of them write a paragraph it contain 150 to 200 they are young but some of them are very smart on this things also they act like adult people. then I came into the class then I found them playing like usual but they play new games always I helped one of them he's name is Karim the game was they should stick a paper to the balloon with using glue for doing that so I enjoyed that and I am very happy to help them .

    After we finish sticking the paper to the balloon we cut new papers for the next time When we will stick the paper again to the balloon.

    Today as always they were eating and cleaning the table and chair. Then I help some one called Mohamed to read the short story he is reading well then I helped shezin to complete the puzzle it was big but he complete it that was good then I helped aaqli to also complete the puzzle but it was four puzzles together. After they finish they take small papers and try to make it like smal balls by rolling the paper then they learned in the computer the moniter and the cpu and the keybored and mouse.

    The last day in future center was wonderful there were many people came to volunteer in this day we did a nice job by helping the student to color this picture so it was good i really enjoyed it even the students was happy when they color the drawing .

    At the end i really love this volunteer and i hope every person have a disability get well soon and the normal person how don't like this life or always say its boring or something like that to say thanks for god because the normal person have something the  person how have disability wish to have it and they maybe will have it in the future or maybe not so god thank you for everything thats all. 

  

Takatof Activity

Using Google search for information about Takatof and answer the questions below

What is Takatof?

It is a nationwide volunteering initiative in the United Arab Emirates, and one of the principal initiatives of the Emirates Foundation.   

Which year did start? And who started it?

It established in 2005 in the UAE under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

What volunteer work have they done?

1-Formula 1 project
2-Takatof  Ramadan project
3-Jacket distribution campaign
4-Tuscoloosa Tornado recovery Aid


How can you help?

I would volunteer and help the community, in any project big or small because I am a good citizen.

UNICEF Activity

How can you help UNICEF? Working in groups, fill in the table below. 

Ideas of supporting UNICEF	Ways of achieving it	Date of completion
Health Awareness	Aware people to do sports and be healthy by eating healthy foods.
Abroad Poverty Aid	Search for people who need the life needs and give them money, food and love.
Sport activities in Abu Dhabi	Do a sport event to aware the people about the importance of sports and give them the chance to make some exercises.
Support Traffic week	Respect the rules that the police put and be a good drivers in the street.

Exercise #5

LSH 2903 – Community Service Learning – Exercise #5

Have a look at this page on the internet: http://www.worldvolunteerweb.org/browse/sectors/education.html

This page has some ideas about how people can volunteer through education projects.

Once you have read through the pages, you need to work in groups of 4 or 5. 

In your groups, come up with a project which you think can be advanced through an educational setting. There are no restrictions, but your idea should be innovative and should aim at adding real value to the people you are trying to help.

As you are working through your project, one of you should be putting together a short presentation (Powerpoint, etc) to explain to the rest of the group what you are trying to achieve.

link; http://www.worldvolunteerweb.org/browse/sectors/homeless/doc/hundreds-of-volunteers-build.html

1.              What are the aims of the project

building houses for the people in iraq, the homeless. 

2.              Who are the target audience, and why?

The homeless in iraq who don't have a place to stay.

3.              What activities would your project involve?

cleaning places and building houses and shelters for them.

4.              Who would be volunteering? Why?

The volunteers from many countries like UAE, Syria, and US, by organising with the organisation.

5.              What are the benefits your project could bring to the target audience?

They will have place to stay and a great life resources like water, food, and home.

6.              How would you look into launching your project with reference to the relevant authorities in the UAE and in the country you have targeted?

we will the homeless in the UAE and build or fix their houses

7.              What problems do you think you might come across and how would you try to get around them?

               it will be dangerous for the volunteers to help them because there is war and fire shooting happing there.

Exercise #4

 This page is also from AGE UK.

http://www.ageuk.org.uk/get-involved/volunteer/volunteers-week/

What volunteer roles do the following people have?

	Name	Job
1	John McArthur	Admin & Information Volunteer
2	Samarah Hashmi	Survey Analyst Volunteer
3	Oliver Stannard	copywriter volunteer
4	Stanley Parker	Market Drayton shop volunteer
5	Camilla Williamson	Volunteer parliamentary assistance

Look again at these people and their jobs. What can you say about volunteering from the information in your chart?

 - They are happy to help other people they also having a good time.